My weekend was pretty routine. Saturday was the usual; cartoons in the morning, AMK in the afternoon. Today would've been no different, but I resisted the temptation to go out and decided to make some preparations for my CS3214 project meeting tomorrow.
I spent a few hours reading Learn to Program JAVA by Danny Poo (incidentally the advisor for my project), which is the recommended text for weaker students. When I got to some of my most dreaded chapters, I was like: "OMG, where was this book during my first year???" If they had used this book back then, I wouldn't have been so hopeless at JAVA even after 3 years.
I went to print a few notes and, being ever paranoid, I even printed out one of those free calenders just so that I can countdown to doomsday (1st November 2004).
For those who are wondering why I keep brooding over my CS3214 project to no end (thereby making my blog topics highly limited), I shall explain why.
I am only taking one (yup, 1!) module for this entire semester and that is CS3214: Information Systems Development Project. It's the only thing I can talk about since it is my one & only primary concern. I am extremely worried to death about it cos' there are absolutely no lectures/classes for this course. To sum up the entire course in one line: "Go build a fully-functional polytechnic web portal using J2EE and get it ready by 1st November 2004". No help, no workshops, no nothing; just a couple of links/documentation that a layman like me can't figure out. How thoughtful.
I may sound a bit distressed, but actually, my depression level has somewhat reduced over the past few weeks. I still remember how hopelessly distraught I was during the first two weeks of school. In my distress, I almost forgot that I have 5 other groupmates. They are pretty nice people at that. They are unlike those I have experienced before who treat you merely as a 'tool' and immediately outcasts you once they know you can't help them get that wondrous "A" grade.
Oh, well. I guess, so long as my groupmates aren't in a state of panic yet, I shouldn't be worrying myself silly cos' I know I am not alone.